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Green Party urges end to Israeli air assault and ruling out of Israeli ground attack [News release]

This was sent out to the British media yesterday -- its content a clear contrast to Brown's dreadful failure to call on the Israelis to stop their mass-killing bombing-raids:
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Green MEP Caroline Lucas calls for suspension of EU Israeli association agreement

 

London, UK – 28 December 2008

 

The Green Party has today demanded an end to Israeli air assaults on Gaza, and for both sides to stop the escalating violence in the region.

 

Green Party leader and Member of the European Parliament, Caroline Lucas, said, "The Israeli action is clearly counterproductive to the prospects for peace. The population of Gaza is already suffering from the Israeli blockade, which has accelerated their decline into even greater hunger and poverty.  Casualties among the civilian population only serve to make people more angry and sow the seeds for further violence."

 

The United Nations office for the co-ordination of humanitarian affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories published a report on 17 December highlighting the plight of people living in Gaza as a result of the Israeli blockade.

 

http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_gaza_situation_report_2008_12_17_english.pdf

 

Dr Lucas also called upon EU leaders to consider suspending the EU Israel association agreement in the light of ongoing human rights abuses.

 

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